DECEMBER
13 , 2002RACIST MURDER IS LEGAL IN CALIFORNIAIf You Are A Cop.Report by E.C.McMullenCopyright 2002 by E.C.McMullen
Jr. forfeoamante.com

REAL WORLD HORROR: WE
GOT HORROR, RIGHT HERE IN RIVERSIDE CITY
And its not the fun kind of chills up your spine, monsters in the dark
Horror either. I'm talking about Horror among posturing, posing, preening,
liberal community, "Racists don't kill people, guns do" type
of Horror in California. There are no doubt more movies to come out
of California (made by white folks) - as
well as finger pointing to the Southern states of the U.S. - regarding
racism against dark skinned people.

But...

I'm referring
to the recent decision of the state of California to drop all murder
charges against 4 white policemen, who saw a woman asleep in her car
with a gun on her lap, woke her up, and the second she was awake, opened
fire. 4 cops. 4 guns. 4 shots would have been enough for even the most
frightened idiot. All 4 of them kept firing until their guns were empty.
They fired 24 freaking bullets at 19 year old Tyisha Miller. They murdered
her with 12 of those bullets. She was not a criminal, she was not under
arrest. Her car broke down and she locked the doors while her friend
went to get help. Alone at night, she put her hand gun on her lap in
case she was attacked. Well...she was.

Let me
give you the scene: It is three days after Christmas, December 28, 1998.
It's early morning. It's Riverside California: the first city in the
US to voluntarily integrate its schools.

The city
where African Americans fled after the Watts Riots of the 1960s.

The only
city in California to have a school named after Dr. Martin Luther King
(though that naming caused a controversy among white parents who worried
that such a name would unfairly brand the school a "black, inner-city
school").

TYISHA
MILLER

Tyisha
Miller and five of her friends had spent a good day together.
They had gone to the nearby mall in the afternoon of the 27th.
Then they went to an amusement park later that evening. They filled
out some job applications and went to the park.

At
midnight, Tyisha was taking her friends home. At 12:30am, Tyisha
was driving her last friend, nicknamed Bug, home when the car
got a flat. Tyisha and her friend pulled into a convenience store.
There, a white man, a stranger to the two women, replaced their
flat tire with the spare; but the store's air pump didn't work.
Tyisha, Bug, and the man, drove their vehicles to a gas station.
They tried to fill the tire but realized that the spare wouldn't
hold air.

Tyisha
used her cell phone to call friends for help while Bug hitched a ride
with the man back home.

Nearly
2:00am and one of her friends and a cousin arrive. They see Miller locked
in the car, with her seat back. Music plays on the car radio. They see
a .380 semi automatic pistol in her lap. Tyisha doesn't respond to repeated
knockings on the car window. She appears to be asleep but they notice
what seems to be foam around her mouth. They call 911 and give a distress
call. Because they mention the gun, police arrive with the ambulance.

The police
arrived two minutes after the call.

You know
how bright those lights are that a single police car shines into your
vehicle when you get pulled over? Well now there is two. Two police
cars shining those daytime bright lights into a single car. Does each
policeman carry a flashlight? Yes they do. So two bright as hell police
car lights and four heavy duty bright as hell flashlights, all shining
into the car.

The cops
knock on the window to rouse Tyisha, but she doesn't wake up. They see
the gun in her lap. They decide to break the windows.

Now you
are Tyisha.

You are
a woman alone in a car at night which has a flat tire. You have put
your gun in your lap in case you are attacked. You go to sleep.

You awake
to the sound of someone smashing your windows. You sit upright. Blinded
by bright lights in your face, you don't have time to do anything else
because the noise of 24 bullets come smashing through your windshield
and the sides of the car.

12 of them
hit you in your body, 4 fly through your head. Everything that is you
- is gone.

Because
of fear - of four very frightened cops who saw your black skin and your
gun. You being asleep, you being in need of help, meant nothing
to them. All that meant anything was that they had the weapons they
needed to overcome their overpowering fear of your black skin.
A fear so overwhelming that they wouldn't stop firing their guns until
it was impossible for them to keep shooting.

Assuming
they were afraid...

Everything
that was Tyisha. That baby part that first learned to smile when her
Mother made faces at her. That part that touched her Father's heart
when she first recognized him. That part that smiled on Christmas day.
That part that cried when she got a vaccine. That part that screamed
and yelled and played with friends. That part that came up and hugged
her Grandma's legs for no reason at all. That part that studied her
books and homework, got a crush on a boy, dreamed about her future,
wrote poems from the heart: all those parts and more were sprayed in
brains and blood in a smell of gunpowder and splattered on plastic,
steel, and glass.

Two of
the cops say that she reached for her gun, and so they fired. Two of
the cops don't remember her reaching for her gun, but they emptied their
full round of ammunition into her anyway. Both of them, though they
didn't see her go for her gun.

Police
department spokesman Chris Manning is the voice of the Riverside, California
Police Department. The P.D. releases plenty of information about Tyisha
afterwards.

They say
that a coroner's report showed that Tyisha's blood alcohol level was
.13 - one and a half times the legal limit for driving. They say she
had been smoking marijuana. Manning says the gun was registered to a
woman who has never heard of Tyisha Miller.

In fact,
Chris Manning is happy to release as much negative information as he
possibly can to smear Tyisha. Though dead, the Riverside Police Department
continues to smear her body, her life, her name, and her family. They
won't stop talking about it.

In fact,
the only thing that the Riverside Police Department won't talk about
are the tapes of the incident. You see, this could all be cleared up
if only the tapes from the video recorders and the audio tapes of the
radio communication from the officers were released. The Police Department
has not only refused to release them. They have stonewalled efforts
to get them released.

Police
have to deal with crime and criminals all the time. They get called
away on all kinds of harrowing actions and see all kinds of harrowing
things.

But this
was not a violent crime call. This was a call for help.

And about
Tyisha sitting bolt upright? It appears that, according to the coroner's
report, Tyisha did no such thing. The path of the bullets through her
body clearly show that she was neither sitting upright when shot, nor
was her hand in or near her lap. One officer has admitted to firing
his gun as soon as he heard the sound of breaking glass. The breaking
glass was caused by his fellow officers who were breaking the window
in order to get in.

Leaders
in the black community of Riverside worked hard to calm tensions among
their people - in particular their youth.

The Rodney
King debacle from 1991 remains a sore spot for black and white alike.
56 people were killed in the ensuing riots and 2,000 were injured. After
the storm was over, many things came to light that had been reported
from day one. Rodney was a habitual offender (His
assault, spousal and child abuse, and alcohol related crimes continue
to this day), he had been speeding (over
110 mph) when pulled over, he resisted arrest, and charged at
an officer. All this before the videotape began.

Riverside
is not the nice community the city would have the nation believe. They
have been keeping a bandage on their problems for years.

In November
of 1995, a black gunman broke into a Riverside halfway house to kill
Sgt. Stacey Koon, one of the officers involved in the Rodney King beating.
Koon was away at the time. The man killed a hostage and was shot and
killed by police.

In April
of 1996, two Riverside officers were videotaped beating illegal immigrants
with their batons after a high speed chase.

In October
of 1996, a black man shot and wounded the mayor, two City Council members
and two police officers because he was angry that the city had cut funding
for an after-school chess program he led for black youth.

So tensions
in this poverty stricken community are high. That said, this was STILL
not a crime response but a victim response.

Skip Miller
(no relation) is the city attorney for
Riverside, and is so obscenely conniving, that he actually
tried to defray the blame from the police officers by having the city
of Riverside SUE the gun manufacturer of the weapon that Tyisha
had on her LAP! (See GunWeek.com).
"This whole
thing would not have occurred but for the presence of this loaded Lorcin
L380," Skip Miller said. "That
gun should never have been there."

No, this
whole thing would not have occurred if 4 policemen didn't keep firing
their weapons into a woman until they ran out of bullets. This whole
thing would not have happened if the police had responded to a cry for
help instead of a violent crime with the tag words BLACK PERSON and
GUN.

"The
city is not trying to pass the buck,"
Skip (as in "I'm skipping responsibility)
added. ". .
. This whole thing was not entirely caused by the city."

Skip
Miller is fooling nobody. Leaders of the black community
of Riverside realize full well that Skip Miller is trying to redirect
the blame. They are not as stupid as he is.

Skip's
actions are being roundly applauded by the liberal voters however, so
he's no doubt happy as a pig in shit.

All four
policemen have been fired for their actions.

All four
have been acquitted of any wrong doing.

Two are
demanding their jobs back. They actually want their jobs back, afraid
(in their words) as they are of an unconcious
black woman. Do you think they will be any LESS afraid to be
on those streets now? After what their actions have done to a community,
do you think they would feel more secure now? Or would they be even
more inclined to "become frightened"?

And as
for the other cops on the force? What about the other cops who patrol
Riverside, California and the surrounding area. Will this make THEM
any safer?

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